Binge analysis

Does 4 count as a binge? 5 definitely does.

A new thing with an old thing in it

One of my photo/paintings has been accepted into the ING Discerning Eye Prize and will be part of the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, opening Thrsday 11th Novemebr and running until the 21st.

This is rather exciting isn't it? Ok, so there are about 200 other artists showing in this exhibition, but I'm super chuffed to be one of 'em. This will be the first time I've shown in London, and in a proper gallery with a gift shop and everything.

If you find yourself in that London do come and have a look.


Exhibition details here:
http://www.discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro/intro.php

Now this is pretty old

And should definitely be filed under 'Things that happened a little while ago'. But I like it.

I made this animation about 2 years ago, and last year it won the Oxfam short film competition at The Deaf Institute, Manchester.

In The Beginning Was

A short animation about a man acquiring his first word, narrated by a former word addict.

Film by Kelly Parish.
Story and Narration by Elinor Taylor


You can watch here:

Queer Kraak

Queer Kraak Exhibition
25th - 31st August, Kraak gallery, Manchester.

Group show of Queer manchester Artists to coincide with Pride weekend.
Initially I thought this was a dreadful premise for an exhibition. Actually, I still do. My sexuality is not relevant to the work I make, and generally I don't really care for work that is too focused on the artist's personal life, prefering work that has a universality about it and allows for a broader interpretation, without the viewer having to be aware of any background information to be able to appreciate it. But, I thought I might as well do it anyway.

The work I made for this show reflected my discomfort with the theme of the show. I never make explictly personal work, and although I'm fantastically comfortable with my sexuality; its mine, and not up for interpretation or debate as I put forward my art to be. So the work I showed incorporated a very personal element; I used old family photos, the first time I'd done this. But the way I edited them negated that personal element. I painted objects and images from my memories of my family into the photographs, but these were so personal that there would be no possibility of any viewer being able to gain any insight into the story behind the image. The work was deliberately ambigious to the point of being meaningless.

Images from the private view are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44087667@N06/4992358135/in/photostream/

Blog Binge

Well, it has been a little while...
I haven't exactly been prolific with this blogging lark, so far anyway. I have bucket loads of excuses though.

A summer of weirdness; heartbreak, and the usual inertia and inability to produce anything that comes with it, have amounted to a prolonged period of silence. But of late I have been sauntering back from the realm of the unsane and entering a significantly happier period of BINGE MAKING. And also BINGE DOING. So I thought I'd better post all this up before I go all weird again. Afterall; THE TIME IS NOW.

There will now follow far too many blog posts for one night.

Things that happened a little while ago #1

Degree Show

Manchester School of Art, 19th -23rd June 2010



















My degree show comprised of 21 images all made from the same negative. The photographs had the same starting point but each was manipulated differently, producing 21 different possible narratives for one moment in time.

Degree Show Degree Show Degree Show Degree Show Degree Show

Lack of interweb and setting up degree show means distinct lack of blog posts recently.

But...

DEGREE SHOW!!!
Come and see our degree show, it's truely wonderful. Manchester School of Art, Grovesner Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester.
19th - 23rd June 2010